Automation Cloud Services
Cloud services for the Microsoft Azure Automation API are collections of one or more automation accounts. The relationship between cloud services and automation accounts is as follows:
A cloud service contains one or more automation accounts. Multiple automation accounts can share the same cloud service.
Each automation account must be in a cloud service.
You must have an existing cloud service first before you create an automation account for that cloud service.
In the Azure management portal, however, cloud services are defined differently and are hosted services instead of collections. This distinction is important to remember, as the cloud services that you create for automation accounts are not available in the portal and must be determined programmatically.
The operations for these tasks return any response bodies only as XML.